AUSTRALIAN blood donation

[Camk91]

While figuring out any potential issues with getting an implant I decided to ask a nurse at my blood donor centre if an implant would affect my ability to donate plasma.

Unfortunately it seems that I would be excluded from donating for the entire time that I have the implant installed. Probably not a big issue for some people but I’ve become a regular plasma donor (every 2 weeks, only ever skipping 1 or 2 donations a year) and want to keep it going.

Other than just not admitting that I’ve got the implant and making sure none of the phlebotomists ever find out about it, have I got any other course of action you potentially have both?

[TSMC55]

I hope you have bad advice. I donate and have had no issues at all. Had to wait a few weeks for the implant wound to heal but then was OK. They do extensive testing on all blood in any event so I can not see there being an issue.

Edit: Actually thinking about timings I think they may also have treated me as if I had just had a tattoo. I had to cancel some appointments due to sudden work commitments and that may have added to their timelines.

[mrln]

In germany people who had gay sex in the last 12 monts or got a tattoo in that time or piercings were not allowed to donate blood.

after that time period no issue…

but most of my gay/bi friends donated anyway and just lied about it^

[Pilgrimsmaster]

I am also a regular Plasma donor, In New Zealand, it USED to be 4 Months stand down period after piercing, It is now 6 Months.

This was the old blurb

@Pilgrimsmaster

If you have recently had a tattoo or body piercing you cannot donate for 4 months from the date of the procedure. If the body piercing was performed by a registered health professional (e.g. a Pharmacist, GP etc.) and any inflammation has settled completely, you can donate blood after 12 hours.

I actually donated just over 2 weeks ago and happened to take a photo of the new stand down period

Here is a thread that may be of interest

TL;DR - Went to donate plasma and the staff didn't know whether to document implants as piercings or surgery

There are also other blood donation mentions in the forum

heres another, sorta kinda relevent

Blood type encoding on vCard

Here’s a question for you medical professionals - and specifically paramedics: I want to encode my blood type and rhesus in the vCard on my implant, in the NOTE field, in a way that’s fairly obscure/unintrusive for people to whom I give my vCard for the purpose of exchanging phone number and email address, yet at the same time immediately obvious for any first aid responder who might happen to scan it while I’m unconscious (unlikely, but let’s assume). I’ve been looking around on the internet …

and some random posts ( from this one down for a little bit )

Bootstrapping Installers

I totally agree with that. If I went to a body mod artist and asked them to do something for me that they weren’t comfortable doing legally or even if they weren’t sure they had the skills to do it, but they still tried it as a favour, and if they fucked it up, I would see that as my fault. There would be an unwritten rule (or a signed waiver), that if anything went wrong, that I was responsible for it. If I had to go to hospital for treatment, then, “I did it to myself” If the medical sta…

Any way, your decision, but I know what I would do in your situation.

[MinkosDes]

With such a blood shortage in AU, it is a real shame that the Redcross still believes anything out of the box is contagious and that gay blood is posion…

Or, is it that the glitter in gay blood gets all blocked up in the equipment?